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Technical Programme Manager, Cyber & Autonomous Systems

Aisi · London

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<div class="content-intro"><h2>About the AI Security Institute</h2> The AI Security Institute is the world's largest and best-funded team dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action. We’re in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10 (the Prime Minister's office), and we work with frontier developers and governments globally. We’re here because governments are critical for advanced AI going well, and UK AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilise them. With our resources, unique agility and international influence, this is the best place to shape both AI development and government action.</div><div class="vac_display_field"> <div class="vac_display_field_value"> <div class="vac_display_field"> <div class="vac_display_field_value"> <h2>The deadline for applying to this role is Sunday 30th August 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth.</h2> <h2>About the role</h2> AISI aims to turn&nbsp;progress on important research questions in AI security into real insight and impact for our partners and the public. This requires running research programmes that&nbsp;actually&nbsp;deliver, and&nbsp;making these programmes rigorous&nbsp;and fast is its own discipline.&nbsp;The AI Security Institute is hiring a Technical Programme Manager for our Cyber and Autonomous Systems team to do exactly this.&nbsp; Over the next twelve months,&nbsp;this&nbsp;team&nbsp;will need to move faster, deliver more complex research programmes and evaluations, and engage more deeply with partners in major AI labs and across government than ever before.&nbsp; Technical Programme Managers make this work possible. You will&nbsp;work directly&nbsp;with the&nbsp;team's researchers&nbsp;and engineers&nbsp;to&nbsp;turn&nbsp;vast&nbsp;research questions into tractable programmes. You will be held&nbsp;responsible&nbsp;for&nbsp;ensuring our research stands up to&nbsp;rigorous empirical&nbsp;standards&nbsp;to inform policy, recommending which&nbsp;technical work&nbsp;needs to happen, and&nbsp;untangling&nbsp;knotty&nbsp;dependencies across workstreams.&nbsp; &nbsp; <h2>About the team</h2> AI capabilities in cybersecurity and autonomy are advancing fast. Frontier models can now work through multi-step cyberattacks, discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, and work independently for days with increasing reliability. These are extraordinary tools for scientific and economic progress but also have the potential for serious harm if misused or deployed without adequate oversight.&nbsp; &nbsp; The AI Security Institute's Cyber and Autonomous Systems Team (CAST) exists to evaluate the capability of both frontier and open-weight AI models in cybersecurity, autonomy, and AI R&amp;D, ensuring the UK government and its partners have an accurate view of risks and capabilities. We continuously build&nbsp;out&nbsp;<a class="Hyperlink SCXW134974837 BCX8" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11214" target="_blank">more realistic cyber ranges</a>&nbsp;and a CTF suite;&nbsp;run pre-deployment testing of frontier models; and collaborate with our partners across the UK and US governments, frontier AI labs, and the National Cyber Security Centre.&nbsp; &nbsp; We provide independent, empirical insight into the cyber capabilities of frontier and open-weight models,&nbsp;leveraging&nbsp;our unique position within government and our partnerships with frontier labs. Key examples&nbsp;are&nbsp;our evaluation of&nbsp;<a class="Hyperlink SCXW134974837 BCX8" href="https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities" target="_blank">Anthropic's Mythos Preview</a>&nbsp;and our research&nbsp;<a class="Hyperlink SCXW134974837 BCX8" href="https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-frontier-are-leading-open-weight-models-on-cyber" target="_blank">measuring the gap between leading open-weight models and the frontier on cyber capabilities.</a>&nbsp;

Technical Programme Manager, Cyber & Autonomous Systems

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